The superior individual is he who rejects the world before it abandons him, and who pleases Allah before meeting Him. The condition of the grave will vary for everyone. If someone spent their life performing good deeds, they will find ease in their grave. If they died whilst sinning, there is nothing but ruin for them.^[1]

Dear Islamic brothers! Look how much the pious people of Allah contemplate over what will happen in the grave. They knew this world is temporary and abstained from obeying their nafs. These individuals knew that if they were to develop heartfelt attachment to the world and chase their desires, there would be great loss incurred in the Hereafter.

Then on the other hand, we have us. How many times have we visited the graveyard and even buried people with our own hands, yet we fail to learn a lesson from any of this. We don’t realise that those who followed their desires and who worked to attain the luxuries of this world, are earning the fruit of their misplaced efforts as they now lay in their graves.

Remember! Although it may appear nothing is happening from the outside, the inward state of the grave is not the same for everyone. Some graves are blooming gardens with greenery and flowers. Others are full of crackling hot coals, or a pit full of scorpions and snakes. Think about this at the very least: if someone gives into their desires and goes on to miss just a single salah, tell a single lie, backbite once, look at something haram once, listen to music once, watch a film once, swear a single time or angrily tell someone off without reason just once, they can be punished for this in the grave.

If this happens, and a person is kept in a small, constricted, fearfully dark grave entirely by themselves, how will they even begin to cope? For those who fear Allah, simply thinking of this is enough to make them tremble. And even then, this is simply our worldly understanding of this